By Ron Sider At a conference in March 2017, the Lausanne Movement and Business as Mission Global issued the important, helpful, and much-needed Wealth Creation Manifesto. While this manifesto is reflective of important biblical...

By Jacques Ellul Unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way...

By Lyndsay Mathews Scrolling through Facebook these days can be a dangerous venture. And let’s not even talk about reading the actual news. With all the disheartening stories in the cycle, one would think...

And 16 other pieces of life-affirming advice to young people from Ken Burns by J. Nicole Morgan Ken Burns gave the commencement speech at Stanford University in June. Addressing our current political climate, he...

Caring for the disadvantaged will do that by Paul Borthwick In an article titled “Christians and the Loss of Cultural Influence,” Peter Wehner wrote: As the dominant culture moves further and further away from...

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